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amer. pickers in Texas

pistoljimpistoljim Member Posts: 967 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
Mike and Frank visited some old boy from Texas. He was quoting some crazy high prices on his junk. He told them that this is Texas, everything is high here. He said that ain't no hump on my back, that is my *.[:D]
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lol
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,264 ******
    edited November -1
    [:D][:D][:D]
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    if their truck goes by you and you can see sun beams threw the trucks box you will know they pulled into my drive way and were met by a m-1 carbine. what makes people sell things to them at low prices(no meat on the bone for us)one of their favorite sayings,i can only guess its the 15 minutes of fame thing(on TV). when they put the show on TV telling what they paid and what they will get,(if true) i,ll bet there are some pis.sed off people. according to T.S. uncle albert,i,ll keep my junk.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eastbank
    if their truck goes by you and you can see sun beams threw the trucks box you will know they pulled into my drive way and were met by a m-1 carbine. what makes people sell things to them at low prices(no meat on the bone for us)one of their favorite sayings,i can only guess its the 15 minutes of fame thing(on TV). when they put the show on TV telling what they paid and what they will get,(if true) i,ll bet there are some pis.sed off people. according to T.S. uncle albert,i,ll keep my junk.
    Were you one of those who wrote letters to the US Coast Guard wanting to know why they didn't get on the stick and rescue those seven marooned passengers from the SS Minnow? [:D]

    American Pickers is a show. Every scene is staged.
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  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep.

    Rather like "Ask this Old House", when Tommy comes up to the door and rings the door bell - surprise, surprise - the cameraman is already in the house, as the home owner opens the door to greet Tommy.

    I wonder how many people think that Tommy just shows up unannounced and hopes the home owner will be home, so he can fix their problem - luckily with the stuff he just happens to have in the trailer.

    [:D]
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yes i did write the coast guard, but to only rescuse one girl. according to T.S. uncle albert, had the hots for her.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,043 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eastbank
    yes i did write the coast guard, but to only rescuse one girl. according to T.S. uncle albert, had the hots for her.


    Mrs Howell is/was married.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If someone showed up at my house and offered to pay 50% of retail price for a bunch of crap I haven't used or touched in 10 years and haul it away to boot, I would not think twice.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Being a picker myself, 99% of people have no clue as to what an item can sell for, how to sell it, where to sell it, or want to sell it.

    If you get an offer for 50% of the true value for your item, and don't like it, A) don't sell it, or B) sell it for more.

    The TV show is just a TV show. In real life, people (both buyers and sellers), can be idiots.
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    damn,i didn,t know she was married,i should have ask for mary ann. well i know what my junk is worth and would not feel like argueing about it with those weasles, so there would be no reason for them to stop. and i know its just TV. according to T.S. uncle albert,no weasles needed.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,388 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    real of fake they have in the past showed clips where the they told to leave the door slammed on them and the list wadded up and throw at them .
    I would guess they started out doing what they do , but now tv has it all staged for the show .
    I also had my doubts when they would go into a garage or barn and only pick a couple things when countless items were there for the taking . just a show like pawn stars now
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They need to b ring the old skank with them.....she dirties up anything...[:o)]
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Weasels? Looks to me as though they over-pay for nearly everything they buy.

    Hundreds of dollars for a rusted-up relic of a part, just because it was once part of an old bicycle? Get real.

    I am acquainted with a feller who makes his living scrounging up stuff to decorate the interiors of restaurants such as Applebee's and Cracker Barrel. No way would he pay that kind of money for the stuff he uses.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,540 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I should write the Saturday night live folks a letter about a skit... The American Pickers folk going down the highway.... group of thugs, or bikers stop them... and they get robbed/ beaten for scrap metal and all the cash they have. They pay cash for everything, sometimes thousands of thousands of dollars. That is a rolling brinks truck ..
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    if you look at what they think they will sell it for, it looks like they make any ware from 30-200 percent profit and that is a lot of meat on the so called bone.. i think i only saw two or three items they didn,t make money on. there is a whole culture of people who buy the old auto-motorcycle- bicycle and old gas station- mill signs ect. according to T.S. uncle albert,no junk here.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't see how the can afford to keep the lights on.

    Driving all around the country, buying a few thousand dollars worth of stuff a day and selling it for twice what they paid. Certainly would pay the gas, the hotel rooms or the Roller Derby Queen back in the office.

    Obviously there is volume purchases that never make the show, or the Discovery Channel is their main source of revenue.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,023 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe the show has quite a following. Big bucks from the sponsors I would imagine.
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